Self-Compassion Step-by-Step

Self-Compassion: The Mainstay of Happiness and Well-Being

Over the past decade, an overwhelming body of research has shown self-compassion to be a master key to good psychological and physical health. Whether you wish to reduce stress, develop healthy habits for exercise or diet, unlock your creativity, or even deal with serious conditions such as depression or addiction, a strong sense of self-compassion is an essential ingredient for success. Best of all, self-compassion is a skill that can be learned. Through six sessions of teaching, Dr. Neff offers guided meditations, experiential practices, and on-the-spot techniques to help you build a strong foundation of self-compassion in your daily life.

Highlights:

Self-kindness, how actively comforting ourselves activates our physiological systems designed for soothing and safety

Common humanity-recognizing the imperfect nature of the shared human experience

Mindfulness, meeting our moments of suffering with balanced awareness rather than ignoring or exaggerating our pain

Why we resist self-compassion, debunking the common myths

The clinically-proven benefits of self-compassion in numerous aspects of life

The essential difference between competitive self-esteem and true self-compassion

The natural progression of self-compassion practice

Guided techniques that use visualization, touch, language, and awareness to evoke states of self-compassion, and much more.